How to exclude JS script from the bundle when building app with vite?

Due to another issue, I have to import a JS dependency statically in HTML in my vue3 application.

/index.html

<head>
    <!-- ... -->
    <script type="module" src="node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/dist/scale-components/scale-components.esm.js"></script>
</head>

As Vite cannot properly bundle this dependency (due to an issue, see the post mentioned above), I would like the bundling to ignore it. In the production build, I want the JS module to be imported as-is in the root index.html.

I tried pretty much everything in optimizeDeps.exclude config property, but Vite still tries to analyze and pre-bundle it.

vite.config.ts

export default defineConfig({
  optimizeDeps: {
    exclude: [
      // I tried pretty much everything here: no way to force vite pre-bundling to ignore it...
      'scale-components-neutral'
      '@telekom/scale-components-neutral'
      '@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*'
      '@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*.js'
      'node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*.js'
    ],
  },
  // ...
});

In every case, after running npm run build, the import has been removed from dist/index.html.

What does optimizeDeps.exclude config expect?

Edit

Following this note, found in https://vitejs.dev/guide/dep-pre-bundling.html:

Dependency pre-bundling only applies in development mode, and uses esbuild to convert dependencies to ESM. In production builds, @rollup/plugin-commonjs is used instead.

I tried to specify build.commonjsOptions.exclude config.

vite.config.js

export default defineConfig({
  build: {
    commonjsOptions: {
      exclude: [
        'scale-components-neutral',
        'node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral',
        'node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*',
        'node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*.js',
        '/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral',
        '/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*',
        '/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*.js',
        '**/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral',
        '**/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*',
        '**/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*.js',
        '@telekom/scale-components-neutral',
        '@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*',
        '@telekom/scale-components-neutral/**/*.js',
        '**/node_modules/@telekom/scale-components-neutral/dist/scale-components/scale-components.esm.js',
      ],
    },
  },
  // ...

No more success: the import stills disappears from dist/index.html.

Edit 2

build.rollupOptions.external and build.dynamicImportVarsOptions.exclude were promising (as the initial issue concerns dynamic imports...).

But no more luck there: the JS dependency is still ill-bundled. It works in local dev but not on a deployed app built with npm run build.